The Doors Open Day took place in Baikal Biosphere Reserve on 06 June 2015 as part of Earth Day and the 1st All-Russian children ecological festival. The amusement rides were launched for children. Ecological games were organized by volunteers of the Great Baikal Trail.
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The 1st All-Russian festival was held on 05-07 June 2015, it combined two celebrations - the Children's Day and the Earth Day. This festival is a social and educational event, dedicated to the nature preservation, wildlife and plant life, organized specially for children. The main purpose of the event is development of ecological culture. The organizers of the festival in Buryatia are Rosprirodnadzor, Lake Baikal Protection Fund, UNDP-GEF Lake Baikal Project.
http://www.baikal-media.ru/news/society/299945/
http://prnadzor.e-baikal.ru/news/?record_id=1188
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On 26th May 2015 the 14th meeting of the basin Council of Angara-Baikal basin area was held. The following issues were discussed during the meeting: the situation in Angara-Baikal basin during the winter season, the results of works of the governments of Irkutsk region and Buryatia. The results of the work of the Lake Baikal project was reported.
http://www.minpriroda-rb.ru/pressa/news.php?ELEMENT_ID=45156
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Media project «Precious necklace of Baikal” was presented on TV-channel, All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Rostov-on-Don. The discussion of the new forms of ecological tourism in protected areas has been taken through the example of the Baikal region by way of the development of domestic tourism in Russia and dissemination of the experience of the Baikal region in the Rostov region and the South of Russia.
«Precious necklace of Baikal” in Russian
Trailer of «Precious necklace of Baikal” in Russian
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The second meeting for Strategic Action Programme development within the framework of the Lake Baikal Project was held in Moscow on 22 May 2015.
The national coordinator of the Lake Baikal Project, acting Head of Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, Amirkhan Amirkhanov opened the meeting. The discussion of the offered changes of actions and indicators of the SAP was made by Russian and Mongolian experts together with international SAP consultant, Paul Gremillion. The conclusion on the work implemented, on interaction of the Russian and Mongolian experts with profile country ministries was made by the project manager, Sergey Kudelya.
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In accordance with the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Mongolia for transboundary water preservation and usage, which was signed on 16 Feb 1995 (and by invitation of Mongolian side), the meeting was held on 28-29 April 2015 in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).
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Russian ecological film festival “Meridian Nadezhdyi” has finished in St. Petersburg. The official ceremony was in the film art centre “Rodina”.
The award panel has determined the best films, which was awarded with the diplomas of the film festival and special prizes, manufactured in china workshop of Russian Academy of Education, under auspices of academician Lev Solodkov.
As part of competitive program, People's Choice Award was given to the documentary “Baikal without boundaries” (Rostov-on-Don) and «The Amur leopard. Struggle for the taiga throne».
http://www.rpnszfo.ru/index.php/14-novosti-meridian-nadezhdy/161-27-04-2015
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The workshop of municipalities of Pribaikalye and heads of the protected areas “About the implementation of the Federal special purpose programme “The preservation of Lake Baikal and social and economic development of the Baikal natural area for 2012-2020 and integrated natural resource management in the Baikal basin transboundary ecosystem” was held on 23 April 2015. The report on the implementation of the Lake Baikal project and the presentation of media-project “Precious necklace of Baikal” were made by Sergey Kudelya. In the organization of the event took part the Ministries of Natural Resources of Buryatia and the Irkutsk Region, Baikal Institute of Nature Management SB RAS and the Administration of municipality “Olkhonsky district” of the Irkutsk Region.
http://www.minpriroda-rb.ru/pressa/news.php?ELEMENT_ID=45138
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During the official visit the information about the implementation of the Federal special purpose programme “The preservation of Lake Baikal and social and economic development of the Baikal natural area for 2012-2020” was presented by Ministers of natural resources of Buryatia and the Irkutsk Region.
The progress of the Lake Baikal Project implementation was presented by the project Manager Sergey Kudelya. Director of Institute of Geography SB RAS told about the Baikal basin Atlas.
http://www.binm.ru/ru/news/novosti-bip-so-ran/vizit_delegatsii_rb_v_ust_ordynskiy_buryatskiy_okrug/
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The official visit of the delegation of Buryatia in Ust-Ordynsky national district and in Olkhonsky district of the Irkutsk Region was held on 23-24 April 2015. In the delegation were representatives of the Government of Buryatia, Project Manager of Lake Baikal Project Sergey Kudelya, Member of the Council of the Federation Arnold Tulokhonov, Deputy Director of BINM SB RAS Endon Garmaev.
In 2015, the World Water Forum, the largest water-related event in the world took place in Daegu & Gyeongbuk of Korea. The World Water Forum is a large-scale international conference that is held every three years since 1997 in cooperation with the public, private sectors, academia, and industries. It was first launched in an effort to facilitate international discussions on global water challenges.
The objectives of the session are to identify the current situation of trans-boundary ecosystem management, to explore the opportunity to develop joint project among those countries. The session is made to strengthen the partnership and share information on trans-boundary ecosystem management in the region to accomplish the proposed targets. The presentation of the major achievements of the Lake Baikal project was made by Sergey Kudelya.
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The Strategic Action Programme (SAP) Development Meeting was organized in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 31 March – 01 April 2015. SAP consultants and Lake Baikal Project technical team took part in this event.
The activities to be conducted for updating SAP and deadlines were discussed.
